{"id":262077,"date":"2026-06-10T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262077\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:59:09","slug":"bill-ackman-responds-to-nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-taxing-the-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262077\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Ackman responds to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani taxing the rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   00:00     Speaker A <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"typography\" class=\" type-body-md-reg    yf-gjjls9\">What do you make of what the mayor has said recently, uh, Mayor Mamdani? <\/p>\n<p>   00:04     Mayor Mamdani <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"typography\" class=\" type-body-md-reg    yf-gjjls9\">Well, today, we&#8217;re taxing the rich. <\/p>\n<p>   00:06     Speaker B <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"typography\" class=\" type-body-md-reg    yf-gjjls9\">I don&#8217;t want to move out of New York City, uh, and I what I certainly don&#8217;t want the mayor to do is encourage other people to move out. We don&#8217;t want to lose Ken Griffin <\/p>\n<p>   00:14     Speaker B <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"typography\" class=\" type-body-md-reg    yf-gjjls9\">and Citadel. And so the the business model of New York City works in in large part because it&#8217;s the finance capital of the world, uh, and a lot of very talented, you know, finance people, hedge funds, etc., want to locate here. <\/p>\n<p>   00:26     Speaker B <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"typography\" class=\" type-body-md-reg    yf-gjjls9\">You don&#8217;t want to discourage them from doing so. I hear he doesn&#8217;t like billionaires, okay? Um, but, you know what? Uh because of billionaires, New York City can offer the poor citizens a much better, uh, way of life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"00:00 Speaker A What do you make of what the mayor has said recently, uh, Mayor Mamdani? 00:04&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6718,9,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-262077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bill-ackman","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}